6.2.1.3 Medium density residential zone code

(b) community uses, and small-scale services, facilities and infrastructure, to support local residents.

Note—As neighbourhood planning is undertaken by the Council, if it is considered that greater housing diversity would assist in meeting resident housing needs, and where it is not intended for the Traditional building character overlay to apply, this zone may be applied to land in the inner city or within reasonable walking distance of public transport stops along growth corridors and surrounding significant centres and destinations, where it is intended that high density residential development should predominate.

(a) Development provides for a mix of well-designed, location-responsive medium rise and medium density residential development of up to 5 storeysand located on suitable sites, in well-located parts of the city, including the inner city and in close proximity to significant centres or along growth corridors or on the periphery of centres.

(b) Development allows for urban consolidation and better use of physical and social infrastructure, capitalising on the zone's strategic location and amenity and proximity to key destinations.

(c) Development supports the creation of a walkable neighbourhood with the potential for residents to live within walking distance of regular public transport, nearby centres, recreational opportunities and community facilities, and reduces vehicle-based trips to work, shops or centres.

(g) Development for complementary residential accommodation options including short-term accommodation support, and meet the needs of visitors to, nearby destinations, such as hospitals, to provide housing diversity.

(h) Development for a dwelling unit may occur as part of a non-residential use.

(a) Development for a residential building occurs on appropriately sized and configured lots and is of a height, bulk, scale and form which is tailored to its specific location and to the characteristics of the site within the Medium density residential zone and reinforces a distinctive subtropical character of medium rise buildings with a landscaped streetscape and recreation areas.

(ii) site characteristics, including the shape, frontage, size, orientation and slope.

(d) Development responds to local characteristics, such as protection of view corridors, reinforces a green landscape character and responds to the surrounding character and architecture by having a lower height and/or smaller bulk than in the High density residential zone, acknowledging this zone's role as a transition area between higher and lower rise/lower density zones.

(e) Development for a housing type other than a dwelling house is of a scale and bulk that enables the buildings to co-exist comfortably with dwelling house and dual occupancy uses in adjoining lower density zones.

(f) Development provides for setbacks which suitably buffer a residential use from an activity in an adjoining non-residential zone.

(g) Development supports a subtropical character by ensuring that:

(i) building form, spacing, orientation and design ensure dwellings are well designed and sensitive to the city’s climate;

(ii) residents on the site, as well as residents of existing or future dwellings on adjoining sites, have sufficient privacy and good access to daylight, sunlight and breezes to enable the intended use of indoor and outdoor spaces.

(h) Development provides quality private and public open spaces and landscaping, including deep planting, which softens the scale of the dwellings, provides spaces for outdoor activity areas and encourages outdoor living.

(i) Development provides for a building design that interfaces with the street and other adjoining public spaces, including via habitable uses at ground level (with parking located below or behind buildings unless a dwelling house or dual occupancy) which provides surveillance and encourages activation of parks and streets.

(j) Development provides for a residential dwelling that fronts a heavily trafficked road or other noise source to be:

(i) suitably located and orientated on the site;

(ii) designed and finished to minimise noise intrusion while maintaining some opportunities for interface with and surveillance of the street.

(k) Development responds to land constraints, mitigates any adverse impacts on environmental values and addresses other specific characteristics, as identified by overlays affecting the site or in codes applicable to the development.